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Queering the library: Art and activism

Art and activism

An exploration of LGBTQ+ artists who have incorporated activism and politics as central to their practice, and LGBTQ+ activists who have incorporated art as part of their activism. Includes Stonewall, AIDS activism, queers without borders, trans rights, and provision of healthcare:

 

Aids riot: collectif d’artistes face au Sida: New York 1987-1994 = Aids riot: artist collectives against AIDS: New York 1987 – 1994

(747)7.036”198/199” AID

2003

Interviews with artists including Julie Ault, A. A. Bronson, the collectives Gran Fury, Group Material and others

The air we breathe: artists and poets reflect on marriage equality

USA-SANS-MUS

2011

A collection of artists and poets present their thoughts on marriage equality in the United States.

Against the clause exhibition

V LON-COM

1988

Against the clause exhibition: photocopy based artwork celebrating lesbian, gay and heterosexual defiance

Art and politics: a small history of art for social change since 1945

7:32 MES

2013

Includes a chapter focusing on the impact of gay/queer art and activism.

But is it art? : the spirit of art as activism

7.036:32 BUT

1995

Documenting the relationship between art and activism, this book features a chapter looking at the work of Gran Fury in relation to AIDS activism.

Celebrate people’s history: the poster book of resistance

766:659.133 CEL

2010

One hundred posters designed by over eighty artists celebrate important acts of resistance--events and individuals working toward racial justice, women's rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and innovative activism. CPH is a creative tour through history from some of the most socially engaged artists working today. Artists include Christy Road, Nicole Schulman, Swoon, Eric Drooker, Garage Collective, and more

Critical Live art: contemporary histories

(41)7.036 65 CRI

2013

Includes a chapter documenting Duckie’s gay shame events as an alternative to mainstream pride events: Duckie's Gay Shame: Critiquing Pride and Selling Shame in Club Performance

From media to metaphor: art about AIDS

USA-NEW-IND

1992

Independent Curators Incorporated

Exhib. originally in Emerson Gallery, Clinton NY. Includes checklist of works (works by artists including, General Idea, Keith Haring, Peter Kunz-opfersei and Jane Rosett.

Gegendarstellung : Ethik und Ästhetik im Zeitalter von AIDS.

D-HAM-KUN

1992

Includes works by Nayland Blake, Robert Gober, Nan Goldin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gran Fury, Donald Moffett, Diane Neumaier, Andres Serrano, Kiki Smith, David Wojnarowicz, and others

Gender Frontier / Mariette Pathy Allen

7 ALLE MAR

2003

A collection of photographs by photographer Mariette Pathy Allen, documenting transgender communities and activism.

General idea: imagevirus

7 GENE BOR

2010

In the mid-1980s, the Canadian art group General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal) created a symbol using the acronym AIDS, arranging the letters in a manner that resembled Robert Indiana's famous LOVE logo. This launched Imagevirus, a project of paintings, sculptures, videos, posters, and exhibitions that investigated the term AIDS as both word and image, using the mechanism of viral transmission. The Imagevirus spread like a virus, producing an image epidemic in urban spaces from Manhattan to Sydney. It was displayed as, among other things, a Spectacolor sign in Times Square, a sculpture on a street in Hamburg, and a poster in the New York subway system. In this detailed study of the Imagevirus project, artist and writer Gregg Bordowitz analyzes the work from the perspective of his own involvement with activist art initiatives in New York during the 1980s and 1990s

Gran Fury : read my lips / curated by Gran fury and Michael Cohen

7 GRAN GRA

2015

Gran Fury: Read My Lips is the first comprehensive catalogue on the AIDS activist art collective's work from 1987-95. Naming itself after the Plymouth automobile model used by the New York City Police Department, Gran Fury made public projects that were simultaneously scathing, provocative, stylish and often funny. Gran Fury's billboards, postcards, videos, posters and paintings raised public awareness of AIDS and put pressure on politicians, while sparking debate in sites ranging from the Illinois Senate to Italy's tabloid press. Bridging the gap between Situationist site-specific art strategies, postmodern appropriation and Queer activism, the influential work of Gran Fury elucidates the political and collectivist art practices that flourished in 80s/90s downtown New York. This catalogue, designed by Gran Fury, is the first major publication solely devoted to their output. It reprints historical interviews between Gran Fury and Robert Gober, David Deitcher and Douglas Crimp, plus three never-before-published conversations by Gran Fury from late 2010. Read My Lips was created in conjunction with the retrospective curated by Michael Cohen and Gran Fury at NYU.

Keith Haring: the political line

HARING

2014

Accompanying a major exhibition at the de Young museum in San Francisco, this book features more than 130 works of art, including large-scale paintings on tarpaulin and canvas, sculptures, and subway drawings. Together they create a narrative that explores Haring's responses to nuclear disarmament, racial inequality, capitalist excess, environmental degradation, and other prevalent social issues. Essays and conversations with writers, critics, and art dealers round out this important analysis of Haring's life, career, and passion

Keith Haring

7 HARI DEI

2014

From chalk drawings deep in the New York City subways to murals in Pisa and Berlin; collaborations with William Burroughs and the famous body painting of Grace Jones, this book follows the trajectory of Keith Haring's artistic career: how a young man from a small town in rural Pennsylvania came to revolutionize the art world - and the course of art history - within little more than a decade." A prolific artist, Keith Haring created countless bold, provocative, endearing, and unforgettable images that continue to inspire artists - and delight children - worldwide. Tracing the arc from his early subway "tags" to his poignant work on social issues as diverse as AIDS, illiteracy and apartheid, this book is the definitive work on Keith Haring

Louder than words / Jill Posener

7 POSE  JIL

1986

This is prominent lesbian photographer Jill Posener's sequel to Spray it Loud and contains over 100 photographs of grafitti taken in Australia and Britain. Grafitti is provocative, funny, uplifting, and encouraging. It is a powerful, challenging way of commenting on the world we live in. But grafitti disappears as hoardings and walls are recovered with fresh images ripe for additions from the spray can. Jill Posener's photographs and accompanying text serve as a document of our time, an essential record of the wid and power of the graffitists

Read my lips: New York aids polemic

V GB-GLA-TRA

1992

Includes works by ACT UP, Gran Fury, Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, Robert Farber, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Donald Moffett, Adam Rolston, David Wojnarowicz, Electric Blanket, and others

Tema AIDS

N-HOV-HEN (OVERSIZE)

1993

Includes works by General Idea, Keith Haring, Robert Mapplethorpe, Donald Moffett, Andres Serrano, and others

Transnationalism, activism and art / Kit Dobson

7:316.32 TRA

2013

Transnationalism, Activism, Art goes beyond Banksy by investigating how the three complementary political, social, and cultural phenomena listed in the title interact in the twenty-first century. Renowned and emerging critics use current theory on cultural production and politics to illuminate case studies of various media, including film, literature, visual art, and performance, in their multiple manifestations, from electronic dance music to Wikileaks to bestselling poetry collections. Includes a chapter on Queers Without Borders.

Years yet Yesterday: Mark Addison Smith

7 SMIT (ARTISTS’ BOOKS)

2016

Mark Addison Smith's artists' book Years Yet Yesterday, consists of an abecedary of 24 text-based drawings inspired by playwright and activist Larry Kramer’s 2004 call-to-action speech, The Tragedy of Today’s Gays. Each drawing is dedicated to a letter in the alphabet, and drawn using three words—rewritten hundreds of times—that appear in the original speech (the complete set contains 24 works because Kramer’s speech did not include any words beginning with an X or a Z). The drawings first began in Chicago in 2010 and completed in New York City in 2014. This series was completed to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Kramer’s speech, with hopes of inviting viewers to reflect upon  decade-long sliver of the 30+ ongoing years of the AIDS crisis.